Life posts ten million photos on the Internet
Ten million photos from the U.S. magazine *Life* are being made freely available online. The Time media group announced this on Tuesday in New York.
Ten million photos from the US magazine Life will be made freely accessible on the Internet. This was announced by the Time media group in New York on Tuesday. All of Life's archives will be accessible for personal use, but Time will retain the copyright.
Access to the ten million photos is to be successively guaranteed in the coming weeks. According to Time, 97 percent of the images have never been presented to the public. Abraham Zapruder's amateur film of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy is also part of the collection. Among the well-known photographers who worked for Life are Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks and W. Eugene Smith.
Access to the ten million photos is to be successively guaranteed in the coming weeks. According to Time, 97 percent of the images have never been presented to the public. Abraham Zapruder's amateur film of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy is also part of the collection. Among the well-known photographers who worked for Life are Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks and W. Eugene Smith.
